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Filmed on 3-11-17. Sorry, but the first, and last part of the video got ruined. I dropped my camera, and broke it. Sean, and I take you through Goldfield mining district. This is just a fraction of the abandoned mines in Goldfield. Though some of the largest, and biggest producer's of gold in the world. We take right up close, and show you how close they are to each other. In 1906Goldfield, Nevada had a population of around 30,000 residents. It was the most populated city in Nevada at the time. They were going to move the capital of Nevada to Goldfield. As the gold dwindled away so did the thought of making Goldfield the capital. Please enjoy, and thanks for watching. Christian

published:15 Mar 2017

views:41979

We stumbled across this abandoned mine while looking for a camping spot, just as darkness was descending upon us (I shot the video the next morning). So, it was a most welcome discovery since it was an ideal location - level ground, out of the wind, a cleared area, good views, plenty of dry wood around for firewood… Abandoned mines often make for great campsites and this one was not an exception.
This name of this mine does not appear on any topographic maps that we have seen (if it is even marked at all) and it took some serious digging to even come up with a name. So, regrettably, I am unable to share any concrete information on its history. This area is heavy on lead and silver mines though and so, it stands to reason, they likely mined the same here as well.
It would seem that the area where we camped might possibly be the older workings at the mine given the absence of rail and the remains of that very old stone building in the wash (which is presumably where the early miner – or miners – lived). Perhaps the miner(s) followed the veins around the hill and started working that second section after coming to believe the first area we explored was played out. In support of this possibility is the fact that the second section had rail, more equipment, an ore chute, etc. Of course, another possibility is that the stone building was from the very early days of Nevada’s mining history and that some modest mining was done then, but that the majority of the mining work seen in the first and second sections dates to an effort during the 1930s or so. I mention this second possibility because the woodwork inside of both the first and second sections appears to be about the same age and it seems less likely that miners would be living in a primitive stone shelter by the 1930s.
That woodwork could also simply be a result of more recent claim owners (of which there is obviously at least one) going back and poking around in old workings.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference…
You can click here for the full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Consistent with its status as one of the biggest abandoned mines in Nevada, it requires a hike of thousands of feet and a significant elevation decline just to get down to where the underground workings really begin at this massive mine… As can be seen near the start of this video, there are twin portals and passages running parallel down to the underground workings. Our guess was that this was because one passage was for traffic entering the mine and the other for traffic departing the mine. Deep underneath the mountain, the passages converge on a main hub from which drifts branch out in all directions. At the heart of this hub is a breakroom and a large workshop. A large drift takes off to the right from the workshop, while to the left a drift meanders away and another passage descends deeper into the bowels of the mountain. In this first video, we explore the hub of the mine as well as the workings taking off to the left from the hub. Following the descending passage, we were eventually blocked by flooding as the mine workings continue deep beneath the water level inside of the mine. One can only imagine how many miles of workings are under those dark waters. Fortunately, the other main drift taking off to the left was on a slight upward incline and so the water drained down and (mostly) out.
With the miles of underground workings at this abandoned mine stretching well into the double digits, one might expect there to be quite a lot of information available on this site. However, that is not the case. There is surprisingly little information to be found online and the various government agencies involved with this site have done a pretty thorough job of scrubbing references to it from their public databases.
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You can click here for the full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
If you like these videos on exploring abandoned mines, please subscribe! https://goo.gl/yjPxH1
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*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, guess what? We have fun doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a hundred years, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

published:06 Sep 2017

views:84414

Let's take a look at the mines that put Nevada on the map. The MightyComstock Lode. Plus we will be giving away another metal detector at the end of the month. https://www.patreon.com/askJeffWilliams

published:15 Sep 2017

views:26002

Paul, Chuck, the new guy Brent, and I teamed-up to explore some abandoned mines and an abandoned whorehouse in Nevada. The Wayward Wench Mine had many tunnels of varying depths. We documented as many as we could. Afterward, we stopped off at an abandoned brothel that saw its last paying customer sometime in the early 1990s. Some of the beds and tacky decor were still in place such as velvet headboards and sparkling stucco. Real classy! Enjoy!

published:15 Mar 2017

views:350312

Part 3 of 4. Mining has served as a leading STEM industry in Nevada for more than 150 years and continues to innovate innovate today.
Technology is improving not just the safety of modern mining, but the efficiency as well. From energy saving measures to life saving techniques, part 3 of the series explores the technology that makes today's mining possible.

published:28 Mar 2017

views:2273

We returned to the NevadaSearchlightMine in order to explore the underground workings. The previous visit was a surface exploration of the many structures at the mine. We accessed the Nevada Searchlight Mine by climbing down the ladders in the 900-foot deep vertical shaft. This let us access the 100-level and the 200-level. Many artifacts are still in the mine including a few functioning ore carts, a miners' telephone, control panels, old signage, old tools, miners' graffiti and artwork, tobacco tins, etc.. We saw it all, and it's included in the video. Video filmed in summer 2011.

published:22 Jul 2014

views:64110

I had a startling encounter with the supernatural while exploring the abandoned HortonMine located near the massive Victorine Mine in Nevada. The Horton Mine dates back to the mid-1800s. I have been inside over a hundred abandoned mines, but this one was definitely the creepiest. As I ventured hesitantly down the tunnel, it felt more and more wrong. You'll see in the video the supernatural occurrence that caused me to ultimately turn around and head back out of the tunnel.

published:08 Jul 2013

views:1606985

I visited this very interesting mine and mining camp on the fourth day of my 2017 trip. The BelmontMine is located high on a mountainside, in the HamiltonDistrict of central Nevada. Ore from the mine was transported via aerial cable tram to the mill, three miles away in the bottom of the canyon.
Go to this page on my website to see many more photos of Belmont Mine, NV:
http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Hamilton-Belmont_Mine_NV.html
Be sure to check out the rest of my videos from this trip!
I've been photographically documenting ghost towns, mines, mining camps and other historic places since 1987.
Ghost towns, mines and more: www.raydunakin.com
Music:
“LostFrontier”
by Kevin MacLeod
Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300039Artist: http://incompetech.com/

published:15 Aug 2017

views:565

Probably less than a dozen people know about the historic miner’s cabin hidden away on this mining claim - and even fewer still know about the abundance of gold mines found here… It remains a secret because the people that do know where this is remain tight-lipped about it and this cabin and mines are located in an absolute black hole on topographic and other maps. There is simply nothing marked anywhere near here. With the contractors for the Forest Service, BLM, Abandoned MineLands (AML) programs, et al working overtime (with taxpayer money) to get all of these historic mines erased, it is very nice to be introduced to some gold mines that are not (currently) in danger of being permanently closed. It is a shame that we have to wallow in such secrecy simply to protect a historically significant site from the very entities that should be preserving it, but such is the upside down world we live in.
The two adits featured in this video appear to be quite old. I was able to find a couple of references to the mines consolidated on this claim in mining journals dating back to the turn of the last century and they were described as already having been worked for a while at that time. So, initial work here probably dates back to around the time of California’s “GoldRush” era.
The earliest gold miners in California were placer miners. However, when the easy pickings from the surface were worked out, they became lode miners and headed underground to start chasing the veins where the gold in the creeks originated from (some underground miners also chased the rich placer left behind by ancient river channels that were buried millions of years ago). The little hole by the creek under the huge boulder would have been referred to as a “coyote hole” by the miners of the time. These were in abundance along the creeks and rivers of California in the early days as the miners pursued gold flakes and nuggets back into the rocks and gravel lining the waterways. So, it seems likely that the small adit we visited first would have been the one developed initially and then the larger adit punching into the hard rock would have come along later.
In further support of the idea that these mines are older rather than newer is that, although it may possibly have been there at one point, there was no sign of rail at the mines we visited. The claim owner also stated that he has never seen any sign of rail here either.
It is not difficult to imagine a swarm of miners crawling all over these canyon walls like ants during the “Gold Rush” era, churning up the creeks and digging out coyote holes. This initial surge of miners, however, would have been followed by a more patient, more sophisticated group of miners that had an eye on heading underground. At the second adit shown in this video, for example, you could have had something like a father and son team or two brothers slowly working away at that lode mine for years, chasing those quartz veins and hauling load after load of ore and waste rock out in wheelbarrows.
I’m giving more of a general feel for the area with these videos rather than showing every single bit of mining history present as both sides of this canyon are covered in mines and the remains of mining equipment. We’ll see more of that in the next video.
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You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD
You can click here for my full playlist of abandoned mines that I have explored: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

published:29 Aug 2018

views:41562

The video features my visit to the BellevilleMine and Mill in Nevada.
This is the first in a series of videos from my 2018 trip, where I explored old mines, mining camps, ghost towns and other historic sites in Nevada and the Mojave desert. I'll soon be posting more videos from my trip.
Music:
"Beauty In A Song" by Justin R. Busch
Licensed by AudioJungle
https://audiojungle.net/item/beauty-in-a-song-country-instrumental/20552361

Mine 3 was one of eleven stops closed on June 25, 2012 as part of a system-wide consolidation effort.

History

The station's name is a historical reference to a coal mine that was once operated on the site of the current industrial area. Pittsburgh Terminal No. 3 Mine (Mollenaur / Mollenauer Mine) was opened by the Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad & Coal Company in 1903 and was still producing coal in 1938.

References

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Gold Rush!

Gold Rush! (later retitled California: Gold Rush!) is a graphic adventure game originally released by Sierra On-Line in 1988. It was designed by Doug and Ken MacNeill.

Gold Rush! is one of the last games that Sierra made with the AGI interface and is one of the most complicated. However, this has not prevented it from becoming one of the lesser-known Sierra adventure games.

The rights to the game are currently owned and published by The Software Farm by its original developers the MacNeills.

Plot

The game is set in 1848, just before the California Gold Rush. The player is Brooklyn newspaperman Jerrod Wilson, who soon receives word that he must go to Sacramento to meet his long-lost brother. After a few minutes of gameplay, word arrives that gold has been found in California, and it becomes much more difficult for Jerrod to settle his affairs in Brooklyn and find a way to Sacramento.

Gold rush

A gold rush is an interval of feverish migration of workers to an area that has had a dramatic discovery of gold deposits. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere.

There were six major gold rushes. The permanent wealth that resulted was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself was unprofitable for most diggers and mine owners, some people made large fortunes, and the merchants and transportation facilities made large profits. The resulting increase in the world's gold supply stimulated global trade and investment. Historians have written extensively about the migration, trade, colonization, and environmental history associated with gold rushes.

Gold rushes were typically marked by a general buoyant feeling of a "free for all" in income mobility, in which any single individual might become abundantly wealthy almost instantly, as expressed in the California Dream.

Overview

Season 1

The first season (show named Gold Rush: Alaska) featured six men from Sandy, Oregon, a small town 30 miles (48km) southeast of Portland, who, due to the economic downturn, have lost their jobs. They decided on an all-stakes gamble – travel to Porcupine Creek, Alaska and prospect for gold. Most of the people on the show have little or no previous gold mining experience and must learn on the job.

Season 2

In season 2, (show renamed to Gold Rush) Todd misses a lease payment on Porcupine Creek and "Dakota" Fred Hurt buys the claim from owner Earl Foster, not needing to honor the lease due to the missed payment. The season explores the Hoffman crew's new mine at Quartz Creek, in the Klondike region of the Yukon, Canada as well as "Dakota" Fred's operation at the site of the original Hoffman mine, Porcupine Creek, and Parker Schnabel's attempts to mine his grandfather's property at Big Nugget Mine.
Porcupine Creek (Hurt et al.): 80.4oz (2,280g) $125,000
Big Nugget Mine (Schnabel et al.): 34oz (960g) $55,000
Quartz Creek (Hoffman et al.): 93.5oz (2,650g) $150,000

California's Gold

California's Gold is a public television travel program that explores the natural, cultural, and historical features of the state of California. The show ran for 18 seasons from 1994 to 2012 and was produced and hosted by Huell Howser for its entire run. The minimal production allowed locations and people to remain the focal point of the program. The show ceased production after Howser's death in 2013.

The show's theme song varies between several renditions of "California, Here I Come", but was most often played on the series by local musicians Eddie Enderle and Richard Chon.

Episodes

California's Gold is divided into 18 seasons plus specials, comprising 443 episodes. Each season averages 24 episodes, although the lengths of later seasons vary.

Related Shows

Several related shows were also produced by Huell Howser Productions. These were California's Green, a show about environmentally-friendly measures being undertaken in California; California's Golden Coast; California's Golden Parks; California's Water; California's Missions; Road Trip, a show about sights along California's highways and byways; Downtown, a show about Los Angeles' downtown; Visiting..., a show about sights in the LA area; and Palm Springs.

And I

"And I" is a song written by American R&B singer Ciara, and produced by Adonis Shropshire for Ciara's first album, Goodies (2004). It was released as the album's fourth and final single on August 30, 2005 (see 2005 in music) in North America.

The song was originally the third choice for the fourth single. Ciara has mentioned in an interview that "Thug Style", "Hotline" or "Pick up the Phone" would be the fourth single, but when Ciara suggested "And I" to executives at her previous record label LaFace, they were unhappy because they wanted "Next to You" to be the fourth single.

Chart performance

At the time of the U.S. release of "And I", Ciara's collaboration with Bow Wow, "Like You", and her collaboration with Missy Elliott, "Lose Control", were at the height of their popularity. "And I" peaked at 96 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and 27 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, which were poor positions compared to those attained by the first three singles from the album Goodies. It was not released outside North America because of this, and it is Ciara's least successful single.

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23:33

Gold mines in Goldfield, Nevada (SCARY DEEP) 20 mines found!!!

Gold mines in Goldfield, Nevada (SCARY DEEP) 20 mines found!!!

Gold mines in Goldfield, Nevada (SCARY DEEP) 20 mines found!!!

Filmed on 3-11-17. Sorry, but the first, and last part of the video got ruined. I dropped my camera, and broke it. Sean, and I take you through Goldfield mining district. This is just a fraction of the abandoned mines in Goldfield. Though some of the largest, and biggest producer's of gold in the world. We take right up close, and show you how close they are to each other. In 1906Goldfield, Nevada had a population of around 30,000 residents. It was the most populated city in Nevada at the time. They were going to move the capital of Nevada to Goldfield. As the gold dwindled away so did the thought of making Goldfield the capital. Please enjoy, and thanks for watching. Christian

24:21

Exploring The Many Adits Of Nevada's Sweetwater Rim Mine

Exploring The Many Adits Of Nevada's Sweetwater Rim Mine

Exploring The Many Adits Of Nevada's Sweetwater Rim Mine

We stumbled across this abandoned mine while looking for a camping spot, just as darkness was descending upon us (I shot the video the next morning). So, it was a most welcome discovery since it was an ideal location - level ground, out of the wind, a cleared area, good views, plenty of dry wood around for firewood… Abandoned mines often make for great campsites and this one was not an exception.
This name of this mine does not appear on any topographic maps that we have seen (if it is even marked at all) and it took some serious digging to even come up with a name. So, regrettably, I am unable to share any concrete information on its history. This area is heavy on lead and silver mines though and so, it stands to reason, they likely mined the same here as well.
It would seem that the area where we camped might possibly be the older workings at the mine given the absence of rail and the remains of that very old stone building in the wash (which is presumably where the early miner – or miners – lived). Perhaps the miner(s) followed the veins around the hill and started working that second section after coming to believe the first area we explored was played out. In support of this possibility is the fact that the second section had rail, more equipment, an ore chute, etc. Of course, another possibility is that the stone building was from the very early days of Nevada’s mining history and that some modest mining was done then, but that the majority of the mining work seen in the first and second sections dates to an effort during the 1930s or so. I mention this second possibility because the woodwork inside of both the first and second sections appears to be about the same age and it seems less likely that miners would be living in a primitive stone shelter by the 1930s.
That woodwork could also simply be a result of more recent claim owners (of which there is obviously at least one) going back and poking around in old workings.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference…
You can click here for the full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Exploring One Of The Biggest Abandoned Mines In Nevada: Part 1

Consistent with its status as one of the biggest abandoned mines in Nevada, it requires a hike of thousands of feet and a significant elevation decline just to get down to where the underground workings really begin at this massive mine… As can be seen near the start of this video, there are twin portals and passages running parallel down to the underground workings. Our guess was that this was because one passage was for traffic entering the mine and the other for traffic departing the mine. Deep underneath the mountain, the passages converge on a main hub from which drifts branch out in all directions. At the heart of this hub is a breakroom and a large workshop. A large drift takes off to the right from the workshop, while to the left a drift meanders away and another passage descends deeper into the bowels of the mountain. In this first video, we explore the hub of the mine as well as the workings taking off to the left from the hub. Following the descending passage, we were eventually blocked by flooding as the mine workings continue deep beneath the water level inside of the mine. One can only imagine how many miles of workings are under those dark waters. Fortunately, the other main drift taking off to the left was on a slight upward incline and so the water drained down and (mostly) out.
With the miles of underground workings at this abandoned mine stretching well into the double digits, one might expect there to be quite a lot of information available on this site. However, that is not the case. There is surprisingly little information to be found online and the various government agencies involved with this site have done a pretty thorough job of scrubbing references to it from their public databases.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference…
You can click here for the full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
If you like these videos on exploring abandoned mines, please subscribe! https://goo.gl/yjPxH1
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, guess what? We have fun doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a hundred years, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

22:02

LARGEST GOLD MINES of NEVADA !!! The Comstock Lode. ask Jeff Williams

LARGEST GOLD MINES of NEVADA !!! The Comstock Lode. ask Jeff Williams

LARGEST GOLD MINES of NEVADA !!! The Comstock Lode. ask Jeff Williams

Let's take a look at the mines that put Nevada on the map. The MightyComstock Lode. Plus we will be giving away another metal detector at the end of the month. https://www.patreon.com/askJeffWilliams

8:59

Exploring the Abandoned Whorehouse and Tunnels at the Wayward Wench Mine

Exploring the Abandoned Whorehouse and Tunnels at the Wayward Wench Mine

Exploring the Abandoned Whorehouse and Tunnels at the Wayward Wench Mine

Paul, Chuck, the new guy Brent, and I teamed-up to explore some abandoned mines and an abandoned whorehouse in Nevada. The Wayward Wench Mine had many tunnels of varying depths. We documented as many as we could. Afterward, we stopped off at an abandoned brothel that saw its last paying customer sometime in the early 1990s. Some of the beds and tacky decor were still in place such as velvet headboards and sparkling stucco. Real classy! Enjoy!

26:49

Nevada Mining (Part 3) - Modern Prospecting

Nevada Mining (Part 3) - Modern Prospecting

Nevada Mining (Part 3) - Modern Prospecting

Part 3 of 4. Mining has served as a leading STEM industry in Nevada for more than 150 years and continues to innovate innovate today.
Technology is improving not just the safety of modern mining, but the efficiency as well. From energy saving measures to life saving techniques, part 3 of the series explores the technology that makes today's mining possible.

6:54

The Nevada Searchlight Mine: Underground Exploration

The Nevada Searchlight Mine: Underground Exploration

The Nevada Searchlight Mine: Underground Exploration

We returned to the NevadaSearchlightMine in order to explore the underground workings. The previous visit was a surface exploration of the many structures at the mine. We accessed the Nevada Searchlight Mine by climbing down the ladders in the 900-foot deep vertical shaft. This let us access the 100-level and the 200-level. Many artifacts are still in the mine including a few functioning ore carts, a miners' telephone, control panels, old signage, old tools, miners' graffiti and artwork, tobacco tins, etc.. We saw it all, and it's included in the video. Video filmed in summer 2011.

3:49

The Horton Mine: Encountering a Ghost in a Haunted, Abandoned Mine (Summer 2013)

The Horton Mine: Encountering a Ghost in a Haunted, Abandoned Mine (Summer 2013)

The Horton Mine: Encountering a Ghost in a Haunted, Abandoned Mine (Summer 2013)

I had a startling encounter with the supernatural while exploring the abandoned HortonMine located near the massive Victorine Mine in Nevada. The Horton Mine dates back to the mid-1800s. I have been inside over a hundred abandoned mines, but this one was definitely the creepiest. As I ventured hesitantly down the tunnel, it felt more and more wrong. You'll see in the video the supernatural occurrence that caused me to ultimately turn around and head back out of the tunnel.

4:25

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belmont Mine, NV 2017

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belmont Mine, NV 2017

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belmont Mine, NV 2017

I visited this very interesting mine and mining camp on the fourth day of my 2017 trip. The BelmontMine is located high on a mountainside, in the HamiltonDistrict of central Nevada. Ore from the mine was transported via aerial cable tram to the mill, three miles away in the bottom of the canyon.
Go to this page on my website to see many more photos of Belmont Mine, NV:
http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Hamilton-Belmont_Mine_NV.html
Be sure to check out the rest of my videos from this trip!
I've been photographically documenting ghost towns, mines, mining camps and other historic places since 1987.
Ghost towns, mines and more: www.raydunakin.com
Music:
“LostFrontier”
by Kevin MacLeod
Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300039Artist: http://incompetech.com/

16:18

Secret Miner’s Cabin & Mines In The Sierra Nevada - Part 1

Secret Miner’s Cabin & Mines In The Sierra Nevada - Part 1

Secret Miner’s Cabin & Mines In The Sierra Nevada - Part 1

Probably less than a dozen people know about the historic miner’s cabin hidden away on this mining claim - and even fewer still know about the abundance of gold mines found here… It remains a secret because the people that do know where this is remain tight-lipped about it and this cabin and mines are located in an absolute black hole on topographic and other maps. There is simply nothing marked anywhere near here. With the contractors for the Forest Service, BLM, Abandoned MineLands (AML) programs, et al working overtime (with taxpayer money) to get all of these historic mines erased, it is very nice to be introduced to some gold mines that are not (currently) in danger of being permanently closed. It is a shame that we have to wallow in such secrecy simply to protect a historically significant site from the very entities that should be preserving it, but such is the upside down world we live in.
The two adits featured in this video appear to be quite old. I was able to find a couple of references to the mines consolidated on this claim in mining journals dating back to the turn of the last century and they were described as already having been worked for a while at that time. So, initial work here probably dates back to around the time of California’s “GoldRush” era.
The earliest gold miners in California were placer miners. However, when the easy pickings from the surface were worked out, they became lode miners and headed underground to start chasing the veins where the gold in the creeks originated from (some underground miners also chased the rich placer left behind by ancient river channels that were buried millions of years ago). The little hole by the creek under the huge boulder would have been referred to as a “coyote hole” by the miners of the time. These were in abundance along the creeks and rivers of California in the early days as the miners pursued gold flakes and nuggets back into the rocks and gravel lining the waterways. So, it seems likely that the small adit we visited first would have been the one developed initially and then the larger adit punching into the hard rock would have come along later.
In further support of the idea that these mines are older rather than newer is that, although it may possibly have been there at one point, there was no sign of rail at the mines we visited. The claim owner also stated that he has never seen any sign of rail here either.
It is not difficult to imagine a swarm of miners crawling all over these canyon walls like ants during the “Gold Rush” era, churning up the creeks and digging out coyote holes. This initial surge of miners, however, would have been followed by a more patient, more sophisticated group of miners that had an eye on heading underground. At the second adit shown in this video, for example, you could have had something like a father and son team or two brothers slowly working away at that lode mine for years, chasing those quartz veins and hauling load after load of ore and waste rock out in wheelbarrows.
I’m giving more of a general feel for the area with these videos rather than showing every single bit of mining history present as both sides of this canyon are covered in mines and the remains of mining equipment. We’ll see more of that in the next video.
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All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference.
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD
You can click here for my full playlist of abandoned mines that I have explored: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

5:20

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belleville Mine, NV 2018

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belleville Mine, NV 2018

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belleville Mine, NV 2018

The video features my visit to the BellevilleMine and Mill in Nevada.
This is the first in a series of videos from my 2018 trip, where I explored old mines, mining camps, ghost towns and other historic sites in Nevada and the Mojave desert. I'll soon be posting more videos from my trip.
Music:
"Beauty In A Song" by Justin R. Busch
Licensed by AudioJungle
https://audiojungle.net/item/beauty-in-a-song-country-instrumental/20552361

29:32

The Horton Mine has been sealed.

The Horton Mine has been sealed.

The Horton Mine has been sealed.

I am very disappointed to say that the famous HortonMine has been fenced off. I didn't want to "click bait" the title, and say "I didn't expect this at the Horton Mine". It's a shame, and something I run into all the time. The BLM has these gates built, and there is no way of getting in. This was a very popular mine due to the rumor of the mine being very haunted. I'm sure you all have seen the video where the chains start moving on there own. The video is great, and kept the explorer from going any further in the mine. The Horton is a hard rock mine, and there is many in the area that are much larger, but not sealed off. I do not want anyone who has no mining experience to go into abandoned mines. I do have my opinion on these hard rock mines which are most common here in Nevada. After Ghost Adventures caught the flying brick at the Goldfield Hotel. There was a lot of strange people breaking in, and doing even stranger things once inside. I saw all of that first hand, and a lot of it creeped me out. I feel bad for the guy that did the first video on the Horton, and caught the chains moving on there own. It's still an interesting video showing the other workings around the Horton. In this video I climbed to the top of the Daniels Mine 3 times. I got to the mine, and noticed my sd card was about full. Then I got almost back to the mine again after getting a new sd card. Well something happened that we all do, and it hit me hard. I was almost running back to my truck, and barely made it. I'm just keeping it real you guys. The elevation, and the steep hike is a killer, but doing it 3 times in a matter of 2 hours. Well I was winded to say the least.
This video did have one good outcome because I started jogging again.
Thank you all for watching my videos, and for all the great comments. (I do read all of them). I have some thing's planned that you'll all enjoy. Sorry for going on, but as I expected it looks like the goverment is going to get this large land grab. There is 2 areas that I have to film before this happens, and I have to get the P900 or P1000. I know the perfect places to legally film these locations. I will only go to one of these locations with a friend or two. Due to what happened the last time I was there with a friend.
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4:10

The Loneliest Mine In Nevada?

The Loneliest Mine In Nevada?

The Loneliest Mine In Nevada?

I was going to call this video “The MostRemoteMine In Nevada?” at first because it really is the most remote mine in Nevada that we have come across or heard about. However, then I started thinking about the grizzled old prospector that located the vein that this mine followed and what his life up at the top of the mountain must have been like… It didn’t take long to realize that it would have been a pretty lonely existence. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know some people (especially miners) like that sort of thing. That doesn’t change the fact that this mine is both “lonely” and “remote” though. Getting to this mine requires a 4WD trip for many hours through the deserts of Nevada before one is compelled to stop at the base of the mountain where the mine is located. It then takes a couple of hours of scrambling straight up a mountain that is about as steep as is possible to climb without needing technical equipment. No trail at all, of course. You’ve just got to bushwhack your way up. We were probably the first people to see this abandoned mine in decades and the last one in that shaft before me may have been the miner himself.
Imagine the life he would have had up there… He may have had a mule to haul his supplies up the mountain, but given that this seemed like a real shoestring operation, that doesn’t seem entirely likely. Instead, I think the prospector probably hauled the essentials up on his back and used the rocks and wood at the top of the mountain to build his cabin and to provide the infrastructure for the mine. That windlass, for example, seemed like it was made on site. With only the wind for company, I can just see the old prospector leaning against the stone walls of the cabin after a hard day’s work and gazing out over the valley far below. Wondering if tomorrow he’d finally hit a vein that would make him rich and daydreaming about how he’d spend the money. Warm water from the canteen and maybe some beans and bread to eat… I have no idea where the miner got his water from. There isn’t water (that I know of) anywhere around there. We found some discarded bottles of booze near the cabin, which would have mixed things up a bit. Although small, I thought this was an interesting remnant of a long lost age in Nevada’s history.
The kicker is that this mine was discovered entirely by accident. We were on our way to another remote abandoned mine when I looked over and noticed this one. It is not even possible to see this mine on Google Earth and I could find no records at all on this mine. So, unfortunately, I cannot share its name or any history on the mine. It is my hope that the geologists in the audience can identify what was being mined here.
Oh, and, yeah, I know I used "miner" and "prospector" interchangeably in the above, but I think he was both.
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All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference.
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD
You can click here for my full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Gold mines in Goldfield, Nevada (SCARY DEEP) 20 mines found!!!

Filmed on 3-11-17. Sorry, but the first, and last part of the video got ruined. I dropped my camera, and broke it. Sean, and I take you through Goldfield mining district. This is just a fraction of the abandoned mines in Goldfield. Though some of the largest, and biggest producer's of gold in the world. We take right up close, and show you how close they are to each other. In 1906Goldfield, Nevada had a population of around 30,000 residents. It was the most populated city in Nevada at the time. They were going to move the capital of Nevada to Goldfield. As the gold dwindled away so did the thought of making Goldfield the capital. Please enjoy, and thanks for watching. Christian

published: 15 Mar 2017

Exploring The Many Adits Of Nevada's Sweetwater Rim Mine

We stumbled across this abandoned mine while looking for a camping spot, just as darkness was descending upon us (I shot the video the next morning). So, it was a most welcome discovery since it was an ideal location - level ground, out of the wind, a cleared area, good views, plenty of dry wood around for firewood… Abandoned mines often make for great campsites and this one was not an exception.
This name of this mine does not appear on any topographic maps that we have seen (if it is even marked at all) and it took some serious digging to even come up with a name. So, regrettably, I am unable to share any concrete information on its history. This area is heavy on lead and silver mines though and so, it stands to reason, they likely mined the same here as well.
It would seem that the ...

Exploring One Of The Biggest Abandoned Mines In Nevada: Part 1

Consistent with its status as one of the biggest abandoned mines in Nevada, it requires a hike of thousands of feet and a significant elevation decline just to get down to where the underground workings really begin at this massive mine… As can be seen near the start of this video, there are twin portals and passages running parallel down to the underground workings. Our guess was that this was because one passage was for traffic entering the mine and the other for traffic departing the mine. Deep underneath the mountain, the passages converge on a main hub from which drifts branch out in all directions. At the heart of this hub is a breakroom and a large workshop. A large drift takes off to the right from the workshop, while to the left a drift meanders away and another passage descends d...

published: 06 Sep 2017

LARGEST GOLD MINES of NEVADA !!! The Comstock Lode. ask Jeff Williams

Let's take a look at the mines that put Nevada on the map. The MightyComstock Lode. Plus we will be giving away another metal detector at the end of the month. https://www.patreon.com/askJeffWilliams

published: 15 Sep 2017

Exploring the Abandoned Whorehouse and Tunnels at the Wayward Wench Mine

Paul, Chuck, the new guy Brent, and I teamed-up to explore some abandoned mines and an abandoned whorehouse in Nevada. The Wayward Wench Mine had many tunnels of varying depths. We documented as many as we could. Afterward, we stopped off at an abandoned brothel that saw its last paying customer sometime in the early 1990s. Some of the beds and tacky decor were still in place such as velvet headboards and sparkling stucco. Real classy! Enjoy!

published: 15 Mar 2017

Nevada Mining (Part 3) - Modern Prospecting

Part 3 of 4. Mining has served as a leading STEM industry in Nevada for more than 150 years and continues to innovate innovate today.
Technology is improving not just the safety of modern mining, but the efficiency as well. From energy saving measures to life saving techniques, part 3 of the series explores the technology that makes today's mining possible.

published: 28 Mar 2017

The Nevada Searchlight Mine: Underground Exploration

We returned to the NevadaSearchlightMine in order to explore the underground workings. The previous visit was a surface exploration of the many structures at the mine. We accessed the Nevada Searchlight Mine by climbing down the ladders in the 900-foot deep vertical shaft. This let us access the 100-level and the 200-level. Many artifacts are still in the mine including a few functioning ore carts, a miners' telephone, control panels, old signage, old tools, miners' graffiti and artwork, tobacco tins, etc.. We saw it all, and it's included in the video. Video filmed in summer 2011.

published: 22 Jul 2014

The Horton Mine: Encountering a Ghost in a Haunted, Abandoned Mine (Summer 2013)

I had a startling encounter with the supernatural while exploring the abandoned HortonMine located near the massive Victorine Mine in Nevada. The Horton Mine dates back to the mid-1800s. I have been inside over a hundred abandoned mines, but this one was definitely the creepiest. As I ventured hesitantly down the tunnel, it felt more and more wrong. You'll see in the video the supernatural occurrence that caused me to ultimately turn around and head back out of the tunnel.

published: 08 Jul 2013

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belmont Mine, NV 2017

I visited this very interesting mine and mining camp on the fourth day of my 2017 trip. The BelmontMine is located high on a mountainside, in the HamiltonDistrict of central Nevada. Ore from the mine was transported via aerial cable tram to the mill, three miles away in the bottom of the canyon.
Go to this page on my website to see many more photos of Belmont Mine, NV:
http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Hamilton-Belmont_Mine_NV.html
Be sure to check out the rest of my videos from this trip!
I've been photographically documenting ghost towns, mines, mining camps and other historic places since 1987.
Ghost towns, mines and more: www.raydunakin.com
Music:
“LostFrontier”
by Kevin MacLeod
Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://...

published: 15 Aug 2017

Secret Miner’s Cabin & Mines In The Sierra Nevada - Part 1

Probably less than a dozen people know about the historic miner’s cabin hidden away on this mining claim - and even fewer still know about the abundance of gold mines found here… It remains a secret because the people that do know where this is remain tight-lipped about it and this cabin and mines are located in an absolute black hole on topographic and other maps. There is simply nothing marked anywhere near here. With the contractors for the Forest Service, BLM, Abandoned MineLands (AML) programs, et al working overtime (with taxpayer money) to get all of these historic mines erased, it is very nice to be introduced to some gold mines that are not (currently) in danger of being permanently closed. It is a shame that we have to wallow in such secrecy simply to protect a historically sign...

published: 29 Aug 2018

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belleville Mine, NV 2018

The video features my visit to the BellevilleMine and Mill in Nevada.
This is the first in a series of videos from my 2018 trip, where I explored old mines, mining camps, ghost towns and other historic sites in Nevada and the Mojave desert. I'll soon be posting more videos from my trip.
Music:
"Beauty In A Song" by Justin R. Busch
Licensed by AudioJungle
https://audiojungle.net/item/beauty-in-a-song-country-instrumental/20552361

published: 21 Nov 2018

The Horton Mine has been sealed.

I am very disappointed to say that the famous HortonMine has been fenced off. I didn't want to "click bait" the title, and say "I didn't expect this at the Horton Mine". It's a shame, and something I run into all the time. The BLM has these gates built, and there is no way of getting in. This was a very popular mine due to the rumor of the mine being very haunted. I'm sure you all have seen the video where the chains start moving on there own. The video is great, and kept the explorer from going any further in the mine. The Horton is a hard rock mine, and there is many in the area that are much larger, but not sealed off. I do not want anyone who has no mining experience to go into abandoned mines. I do have my opinion on these hard rock mines which are most common here in Nevada. After G...

published: 20 Oct 2018

The Loneliest Mine In Nevada?

I was going to call this video “The MostRemoteMine In Nevada?” at first because it really is the most remote mine in Nevada that we have come across or heard about. However, then I started thinking about the grizzled old prospector that located the vein that this mine followed and what his life up at the top of the mountain must have been like… It didn’t take long to realize that it would have been a pretty lonely existence. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know some people (especially miners) like that sort of thing. That doesn’t change the fact that this mine is both “lonely” and “remote” though. Getting to this mine requires a 4WD trip for many hours through the deserts of Nevada before one is compelled to stop at the base of the mountain where the mine is located. It then takes a couple of...

Gold mines in Goldfield, Nevada (SCARY DEEP) 20 mines found!!!

Filmed on 3-11-17. Sorry, but the first, and last part of the video got ruined. I dropped my camera, and broke it. Sean, and I take you through Goldfield mining...

Filmed on 3-11-17. Sorry, but the first, and last part of the video got ruined. I dropped my camera, and broke it. Sean, and I take you through Goldfield mining district. This is just a fraction of the abandoned mines in Goldfield. Though some of the largest, and biggest producer's of gold in the world. We take right up close, and show you how close they are to each other. In 1906Goldfield, Nevada had a population of around 30,000 residents. It was the most populated city in Nevada at the time. They were going to move the capital of Nevada to Goldfield. As the gold dwindled away so did the thought of making Goldfield the capital. Please enjoy, and thanks for watching. Christian

Filmed on 3-11-17. Sorry, but the first, and last part of the video got ruined. I dropped my camera, and broke it. Sean, and I take you through Goldfield mining district. This is just a fraction of the abandoned mines in Goldfield. Though some of the largest, and biggest producer's of gold in the world. We take right up close, and show you how close they are to each other. In 1906Goldfield, Nevada had a population of around 30,000 residents. It was the most populated city in Nevada at the time. They were going to move the capital of Nevada to Goldfield. As the gold dwindled away so did the thought of making Goldfield the capital. Please enjoy, and thanks for watching. Christian

Exploring The Many Adits Of Nevada's Sweetwater Rim Mine

We stumbled across this abandoned mine while looking for a camping spot, just as darkness was descending upon us (I shot the video the next morning). So, it was...

We stumbled across this abandoned mine while looking for a camping spot, just as darkness was descending upon us (I shot the video the next morning). So, it was a most welcome discovery since it was an ideal location - level ground, out of the wind, a cleared area, good views, plenty of dry wood around for firewood… Abandoned mines often make for great campsites and this one was not an exception.
This name of this mine does not appear on any topographic maps that we have seen (if it is even marked at all) and it took some serious digging to even come up with a name. So, regrettably, I am unable to share any concrete information on its history. This area is heavy on lead and silver mines though and so, it stands to reason, they likely mined the same here as well.
It would seem that the area where we camped might possibly be the older workings at the mine given the absence of rail and the remains of that very old stone building in the wash (which is presumably where the early miner – or miners – lived). Perhaps the miner(s) followed the veins around the hill and started working that second section after coming to believe the first area we explored was played out. In support of this possibility is the fact that the second section had rail, more equipment, an ore chute, etc. Of course, another possibility is that the stone building was from the very early days of Nevada’s mining history and that some modest mining was done then, but that the majority of the mining work seen in the first and second sections dates to an effort during the 1930s or so. I mention this second possibility because the woodwork inside of both the first and second sections appears to be about the same age and it seems less likely that miners would be living in a primitive stone shelter by the 1930s.
That woodwork could also simply be a result of more recent claim owners (of which there is obviously at least one) going back and poking around in old workings.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference…
You can click here for the full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

We stumbled across this abandoned mine while looking for a camping spot, just as darkness was descending upon us (I shot the video the next morning). So, it was a most welcome discovery since it was an ideal location - level ground, out of the wind, a cleared area, good views, plenty of dry wood around for firewood… Abandoned mines often make for great campsites and this one was not an exception.
This name of this mine does not appear on any topographic maps that we have seen (if it is even marked at all) and it took some serious digging to even come up with a name. So, regrettably, I am unable to share any concrete information on its history. This area is heavy on lead and silver mines though and so, it stands to reason, they likely mined the same here as well.
It would seem that the area where we camped might possibly be the older workings at the mine given the absence of rail and the remains of that very old stone building in the wash (which is presumably where the early miner – or miners – lived). Perhaps the miner(s) followed the veins around the hill and started working that second section after coming to believe the first area we explored was played out. In support of this possibility is the fact that the second section had rail, more equipment, an ore chute, etc. Of course, another possibility is that the stone building was from the very early days of Nevada’s mining history and that some modest mining was done then, but that the majority of the mining work seen in the first and second sections dates to an effort during the 1930s or so. I mention this second possibility because the woodwork inside of both the first and second sections appears to be about the same age and it seems less likely that miners would be living in a primitive stone shelter by the 1930s.
That woodwork could also simply be a result of more recent claim owners (of which there is obviously at least one) going back and poking around in old workings.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference…
You can click here for the full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Exploring One Of The Biggest Abandoned Mines In Nevada: Part 1

Consistent with its status as one of the biggest abandoned mines in Nevada, it requires a hike of thousands of feet and a significant elevation decline just to ...

Consistent with its status as one of the biggest abandoned mines in Nevada, it requires a hike of thousands of feet and a significant elevation decline just to get down to where the underground workings really begin at this massive mine… As can be seen near the start of this video, there are twin portals and passages running parallel down to the underground workings. Our guess was that this was because one passage was for traffic entering the mine and the other for traffic departing the mine. Deep underneath the mountain, the passages converge on a main hub from which drifts branch out in all directions. At the heart of this hub is a breakroom and a large workshop. A large drift takes off to the right from the workshop, while to the left a drift meanders away and another passage descends deeper into the bowels of the mountain. In this first video, we explore the hub of the mine as well as the workings taking off to the left from the hub. Following the descending passage, we were eventually blocked by flooding as the mine workings continue deep beneath the water level inside of the mine. One can only imagine how many miles of workings are under those dark waters. Fortunately, the other main drift taking off to the left was on a slight upward incline and so the water drained down and (mostly) out.
With the miles of underground workings at this abandoned mine stretching well into the double digits, one might expect there to be quite a lot of information available on this site. However, that is not the case. There is surprisingly little information to be found online and the various government agencies involved with this site have done a pretty thorough job of scrubbing references to it from their public databases.
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Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, guess what? We have fun doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a hundred years, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Consistent with its status as one of the biggest abandoned mines in Nevada, it requires a hike of thousands of feet and a significant elevation decline just to get down to where the underground workings really begin at this massive mine… As can be seen near the start of this video, there are twin portals and passages running parallel down to the underground workings. Our guess was that this was because one passage was for traffic entering the mine and the other for traffic departing the mine. Deep underneath the mountain, the passages converge on a main hub from which drifts branch out in all directions. At the heart of this hub is a breakroom and a large workshop. A large drift takes off to the right from the workshop, while to the left a drift meanders away and another passage descends deeper into the bowels of the mountain. In this first video, we explore the hub of the mine as well as the workings taking off to the left from the hub. Following the descending passage, we were eventually blocked by flooding as the mine workings continue deep beneath the water level inside of the mine. One can only imagine how many miles of workings are under those dark waters. Fortunately, the other main drift taking off to the left was on a slight upward incline and so the water drained down and (mostly) out.
With the miles of underground workings at this abandoned mine stretching well into the double digits, one might expect there to be quite a lot of information available on this site. However, that is not the case. There is surprisingly little information to be found online and the various government agencies involved with this site have done a pretty thorough job of scrubbing references to it from their public databases.
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Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, guess what? We have fun doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a hundred years, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Paul, Chuck, the new guy Brent, and I teamed-up to explore some abandoned mines and an abandoned whorehouse in Nevada. The Wayward Wench Mine had many tunnels of varying depths. We documented as many as we could. Afterward, we stopped off at an abandoned brothel that saw its last paying customer sometime in the early 1990s. Some of the beds and tacky decor were still in place such as velvet headboards and sparkling stucco. Real classy! Enjoy!

Paul, Chuck, the new guy Brent, and I teamed-up to explore some abandoned mines and an abandoned whorehouse in Nevada. The Wayward Wench Mine had many tunnels of varying depths. We documented as many as we could. Afterward, we stopped off at an abandoned brothel that saw its last paying customer sometime in the early 1990s. Some of the beds and tacky decor were still in place such as velvet headboards and sparkling stucco. Real classy! Enjoy!

Nevada Mining (Part 3) - Modern Prospecting

Part 3 of 4. Mining has served as a leading STEM industry in Nevada for more than 150 years and continues to innovate innovate today.
Technology is improving no...

Part 3 of 4. Mining has served as a leading STEM industry in Nevada for more than 150 years and continues to innovate innovate today.
Technology is improving not just the safety of modern mining, but the efficiency as well. From energy saving measures to life saving techniques, part 3 of the series explores the technology that makes today's mining possible.

Part 3 of 4. Mining has served as a leading STEM industry in Nevada for more than 150 years and continues to innovate innovate today.
Technology is improving not just the safety of modern mining, but the efficiency as well. From energy saving measures to life saving techniques, part 3 of the series explores the technology that makes today's mining possible.

The Nevada Searchlight Mine: Underground Exploration

We returned to the NevadaSearchlightMine in order to explore the underground workings. The previous visit was a surface exploration of the many structures at...

We returned to the NevadaSearchlightMine in order to explore the underground workings. The previous visit was a surface exploration of the many structures at the mine. We accessed the Nevada Searchlight Mine by climbing down the ladders in the 900-foot deep vertical shaft. This let us access the 100-level and the 200-level. Many artifacts are still in the mine including a few functioning ore carts, a miners' telephone, control panels, old signage, old tools, miners' graffiti and artwork, tobacco tins, etc.. We saw it all, and it's included in the video. Video filmed in summer 2011.

We returned to the NevadaSearchlightMine in order to explore the underground workings. The previous visit was a surface exploration of the many structures at the mine. We accessed the Nevada Searchlight Mine by climbing down the ladders in the 900-foot deep vertical shaft. This let us access the 100-level and the 200-level. Many artifacts are still in the mine including a few functioning ore carts, a miners' telephone, control panels, old signage, old tools, miners' graffiti and artwork, tobacco tins, etc.. We saw it all, and it's included in the video. Video filmed in summer 2011.

The Horton Mine: Encountering a Ghost in a Haunted, Abandoned Mine (Summer 2013)

I had a startling encounter with the supernatural while exploring the abandoned HortonMine located near the massive Victorine Mine in Nevada. The Horton Mine ...

I had a startling encounter with the supernatural while exploring the abandoned HortonMine located near the massive Victorine Mine in Nevada. The Horton Mine dates back to the mid-1800s. I have been inside over a hundred abandoned mines, but this one was definitely the creepiest. As I ventured hesitantly down the tunnel, it felt more and more wrong. You'll see in the video the supernatural occurrence that caused me to ultimately turn around and head back out of the tunnel.

I had a startling encounter with the supernatural while exploring the abandoned HortonMine located near the massive Victorine Mine in Nevada. The Horton Mine dates back to the mid-1800s. I have been inside over a hundred abandoned mines, but this one was definitely the creepiest. As I ventured hesitantly down the tunnel, it felt more and more wrong. You'll see in the video the supernatural occurrence that caused me to ultimately turn around and head back out of the tunnel.

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belmont Mine, NV 2017

I visited this very interesting mine and mining camp on the fourth day of my 2017 trip. The BelmontMine is located high on a mountainside, in the Hamilton Dist...

I visited this very interesting mine and mining camp on the fourth day of my 2017 trip. The BelmontMine is located high on a mountainside, in the HamiltonDistrict of central Nevada. Ore from the mine was transported via aerial cable tram to the mill, three miles away in the bottom of the canyon.
Go to this page on my website to see many more photos of Belmont Mine, NV:
http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Hamilton-Belmont_Mine_NV.html
Be sure to check out the rest of my videos from this trip!
I've been photographically documenting ghost towns, mines, mining camps and other historic places since 1987.
Ghost towns, mines and more: www.raydunakin.com
Music:
“LostFrontier”
by Kevin MacLeod
Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300039Artist: http://incompetech.com/

I visited this very interesting mine and mining camp on the fourth day of my 2017 trip. The BelmontMine is located high on a mountainside, in the HamiltonDistrict of central Nevada. Ore from the mine was transported via aerial cable tram to the mill, three miles away in the bottom of the canyon.
Go to this page on my website to see many more photos of Belmont Mine, NV:
http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Hamilton-Belmont_Mine_NV.html
Be sure to check out the rest of my videos from this trip!
I've been photographically documenting ghost towns, mines, mining camps and other historic places since 1987.
Ghost towns, mines and more: www.raydunakin.com
Music:
“LostFrontier”
by Kevin MacLeod
Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300039Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Secret Miner’s Cabin & Mines In The Sierra Nevada - Part 1

Probably less than a dozen people know about the historic miner’s cabin hidden away on this mining claim - and even fewer still know about the abundance of gold...

Probably less than a dozen people know about the historic miner’s cabin hidden away on this mining claim - and even fewer still know about the abundance of gold mines found here… It remains a secret because the people that do know where this is remain tight-lipped about it and this cabin and mines are located in an absolute black hole on topographic and other maps. There is simply nothing marked anywhere near here. With the contractors for the Forest Service, BLM, Abandoned MineLands (AML) programs, et al working overtime (with taxpayer money) to get all of these historic mines erased, it is very nice to be introduced to some gold mines that are not (currently) in danger of being permanently closed. It is a shame that we have to wallow in such secrecy simply to protect a historically significant site from the very entities that should be preserving it, but such is the upside down world we live in.
The two adits featured in this video appear to be quite old. I was able to find a couple of references to the mines consolidated on this claim in mining journals dating back to the turn of the last century and they were described as already having been worked for a while at that time. So, initial work here probably dates back to around the time of California’s “GoldRush” era.
The earliest gold miners in California were placer miners. However, when the easy pickings from the surface were worked out, they became lode miners and headed underground to start chasing the veins where the gold in the creeks originated from (some underground miners also chased the rich placer left behind by ancient river channels that were buried millions of years ago). The little hole by the creek under the huge boulder would have been referred to as a “coyote hole” by the miners of the time. These were in abundance along the creeks and rivers of California in the early days as the miners pursued gold flakes and nuggets back into the rocks and gravel lining the waterways. So, it seems likely that the small adit we visited first would have been the one developed initially and then the larger adit punching into the hard rock would have come along later.
In further support of the idea that these mines are older rather than newer is that, although it may possibly have been there at one point, there was no sign of rail at the mines we visited. The claim owner also stated that he has never seen any sign of rail here either.
It is not difficult to imagine a swarm of miners crawling all over these canyon walls like ants during the “Gold Rush” era, churning up the creeks and digging out coyote holes. This initial surge of miners, however, would have been followed by a more patient, more sophisticated group of miners that had an eye on heading underground. At the second adit shown in this video, for example, you could have had something like a father and son team or two brothers slowly working away at that lode mine for years, chasing those quartz veins and hauling load after load of ore and waste rock out in wheelbarrows.
I’m giving more of a general feel for the area with these videos rather than showing every single bit of mining history present as both sides of this canyon are covered in mines and the remains of mining equipment. We’ll see more of that in the next video.
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All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference.
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD
You can click here for my full playlist of abandoned mines that I have explored: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Probably less than a dozen people know about the historic miner’s cabin hidden away on this mining claim - and even fewer still know about the abundance of gold mines found here… It remains a secret because the people that do know where this is remain tight-lipped about it and this cabin and mines are located in an absolute black hole on topographic and other maps. There is simply nothing marked anywhere near here. With the contractors for the Forest Service, BLM, Abandoned MineLands (AML) programs, et al working overtime (with taxpayer money) to get all of these historic mines erased, it is very nice to be introduced to some gold mines that are not (currently) in danger of being permanently closed. It is a shame that we have to wallow in such secrecy simply to protect a historically significant site from the very entities that should be preserving it, but such is the upside down world we live in.
The two adits featured in this video appear to be quite old. I was able to find a couple of references to the mines consolidated on this claim in mining journals dating back to the turn of the last century and they were described as already having been worked for a while at that time. So, initial work here probably dates back to around the time of California’s “GoldRush” era.
The earliest gold miners in California were placer miners. However, when the easy pickings from the surface were worked out, they became lode miners and headed underground to start chasing the veins where the gold in the creeks originated from (some underground miners also chased the rich placer left behind by ancient river channels that were buried millions of years ago). The little hole by the creek under the huge boulder would have been referred to as a “coyote hole” by the miners of the time. These were in abundance along the creeks and rivers of California in the early days as the miners pursued gold flakes and nuggets back into the rocks and gravel lining the waterways. So, it seems likely that the small adit we visited first would have been the one developed initially and then the larger adit punching into the hard rock would have come along later.
In further support of the idea that these mines are older rather than newer is that, although it may possibly have been there at one point, there was no sign of rail at the mines we visited. The claim owner also stated that he has never seen any sign of rail here either.
It is not difficult to imagine a swarm of miners crawling all over these canyon walls like ants during the “Gold Rush” era, churning up the creeks and digging out coyote holes. This initial surge of miners, however, would have been followed by a more patient, more sophisticated group of miners that had an eye on heading underground. At the second adit shown in this video, for example, you could have had something like a father and son team or two brothers slowly working away at that lode mine for years, chasing those quartz veins and hauling load after load of ore and waste rock out in wheelbarrows.
I’m giving more of a general feel for the area with these videos rather than showing every single bit of mining history present as both sides of this canyon are covered in mines and the remains of mining equipment. We’ll see more of that in the next video.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference.
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD
You can click here for my full playlist of abandoned mines that I have explored: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belleville Mine, NV 2018

The video features my visit to the BellevilleMine and Mill in Nevada.
This is the first in a series of videos from my 2018 trip, where I explored old mines, m...

The video features my visit to the BellevilleMine and Mill in Nevada.
This is the first in a series of videos from my 2018 trip, where I explored old mines, mining camps, ghost towns and other historic sites in Nevada and the Mojave desert. I'll soon be posting more videos from my trip.
Music:
"Beauty In A Song" by Justin R. Busch
Licensed by AudioJungle
https://audiojungle.net/item/beauty-in-a-song-country-instrumental/20552361

The video features my visit to the BellevilleMine and Mill in Nevada.
This is the first in a series of videos from my 2018 trip, where I explored old mines, mining camps, ghost towns and other historic sites in Nevada and the Mojave desert. I'll soon be posting more videos from my trip.
Music:
"Beauty In A Song" by Justin R. Busch
Licensed by AudioJungle
https://audiojungle.net/item/beauty-in-a-song-country-instrumental/20552361

The Horton Mine has been sealed.

I am very disappointed to say that the famous HortonMine has been fenced off. I didn't want to "click bait" the title, and say "I didn't expect this at the Hor...

I am very disappointed to say that the famous HortonMine has been fenced off. I didn't want to "click bait" the title, and say "I didn't expect this at the Horton Mine". It's a shame, and something I run into all the time. The BLM has these gates built, and there is no way of getting in. This was a very popular mine due to the rumor of the mine being very haunted. I'm sure you all have seen the video where the chains start moving on there own. The video is great, and kept the explorer from going any further in the mine. The Horton is a hard rock mine, and there is many in the area that are much larger, but not sealed off. I do not want anyone who has no mining experience to go into abandoned mines. I do have my opinion on these hard rock mines which are most common here in Nevada. After Ghost Adventures caught the flying brick at the Goldfield Hotel. There was a lot of strange people breaking in, and doing even stranger things once inside. I saw all of that first hand, and a lot of it creeped me out. I feel bad for the guy that did the first video on the Horton, and caught the chains moving on there own. It's still an interesting video showing the other workings around the Horton. In this video I climbed to the top of the Daniels Mine 3 times. I got to the mine, and noticed my sd card was about full. Then I got almost back to the mine again after getting a new sd card. Well something happened that we all do, and it hit me hard. I was almost running back to my truck, and barely made it. I'm just keeping it real you guys. The elevation, and the steep hike is a killer, but doing it 3 times in a matter of 2 hours. Well I was winded to say the least.
This video did have one good outcome because I started jogging again.
Thank you all for watching my videos, and for all the great comments. (I do read all of them). I have some thing's planned that you'll all enjoy. Sorry for going on, but as I expected it looks like the goverment is going to get this large land grab. There is 2 areas that I have to film before this happens, and I have to get the P900 or P1000. I know the perfect places to legally film these locations. I will only go to one of these locations with a friend or two. Due to what happened the last time I was there with a friend.
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I am very disappointed to say that the famous HortonMine has been fenced off. I didn't want to "click bait" the title, and say "I didn't expect this at the Horton Mine". It's a shame, and something I run into all the time. The BLM has these gates built, and there is no way of getting in. This was a very popular mine due to the rumor of the mine being very haunted. I'm sure you all have seen the video where the chains start moving on there own. The video is great, and kept the explorer from going any further in the mine. The Horton is a hard rock mine, and there is many in the area that are much larger, but not sealed off. I do not want anyone who has no mining experience to go into abandoned mines. I do have my opinion on these hard rock mines which are most common here in Nevada. After Ghost Adventures caught the flying brick at the Goldfield Hotel. There was a lot of strange people breaking in, and doing even stranger things once inside. I saw all of that first hand, and a lot of it creeped me out. I feel bad for the guy that did the first video on the Horton, and caught the chains moving on there own. It's still an interesting video showing the other workings around the Horton. In this video I climbed to the top of the Daniels Mine 3 times. I got to the mine, and noticed my sd card was about full. Then I got almost back to the mine again after getting a new sd card. Well something happened that we all do, and it hit me hard. I was almost running back to my truck, and barely made it. I'm just keeping it real you guys. The elevation, and the steep hike is a killer, but doing it 3 times in a matter of 2 hours. Well I was winded to say the least.
This video did have one good outcome because I started jogging again.
Thank you all for watching my videos, and for all the great comments. (I do read all of them). I have some thing's planned that you'll all enjoy. Sorry for going on, but as I expected it looks like the goverment is going to get this large land grab. There is 2 areas that I have to film before this happens, and I have to get the P900 or P1000. I know the perfect places to legally film these locations. I will only go to one of these locations with a friend or two. Due to what happened the last time I was there with a friend.
Thank you ChristianFacebookPage. https://www.facebook.com/AdventuresWithChristian/
Donations Welcome. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=AV94NQA6AQM74

The Loneliest Mine In Nevada?

I was going to call this video “The MostRemoteMine In Nevada?” at first because it really is the most remote mine in Nevada that we have come across or heard ...

I was going to call this video “The MostRemoteMine In Nevada?” at first because it really is the most remote mine in Nevada that we have come across or heard about. However, then I started thinking about the grizzled old prospector that located the vein that this mine followed and what his life up at the top of the mountain must have been like… It didn’t take long to realize that it would have been a pretty lonely existence. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know some people (especially miners) like that sort of thing. That doesn’t change the fact that this mine is both “lonely” and “remote” though. Getting to this mine requires a 4WD trip for many hours through the deserts of Nevada before one is compelled to stop at the base of the mountain where the mine is located. It then takes a couple of hours of scrambling straight up a mountain that is about as steep as is possible to climb without needing technical equipment. No trail at all, of course. You’ve just got to bushwhack your way up. We were probably the first people to see this abandoned mine in decades and the last one in that shaft before me may have been the miner himself.
Imagine the life he would have had up there… He may have had a mule to haul his supplies up the mountain, but given that this seemed like a real shoestring operation, that doesn’t seem entirely likely. Instead, I think the prospector probably hauled the essentials up on his back and used the rocks and wood at the top of the mountain to build his cabin and to provide the infrastructure for the mine. That windlass, for example, seemed like it was made on site. With only the wind for company, I can just see the old prospector leaning against the stone walls of the cabin after a hard day’s work and gazing out over the valley far below. Wondering if tomorrow he’d finally hit a vein that would make him rich and daydreaming about how he’d spend the money. Warm water from the canteen and maybe some beans and bread to eat… I have no idea where the miner got his water from. There isn’t water (that I know of) anywhere around there. We found some discarded bottles of booze near the cabin, which would have mixed things up a bit. Although small, I thought this was an interesting remnant of a long lost age in Nevada’s history.
The kicker is that this mine was discovered entirely by accident. We were on our way to another remote abandoned mine when I looked over and noticed this one. It is not even possible to see this mine on Google Earth and I could find no records at all on this mine. So, unfortunately, I cannot share its name or any history on the mine. It is my hope that the geologists in the audience can identify what was being mined here.
Oh, and, yeah, I know I used "miner" and "prospector" interchangeably in the above, but I think he was both.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference.
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD
You can click here for my full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

I was going to call this video “The MostRemoteMine In Nevada?” at first because it really is the most remote mine in Nevada that we have come across or heard about. However, then I started thinking about the grizzled old prospector that located the vein that this mine followed and what his life up at the top of the mountain must have been like… It didn’t take long to realize that it would have been a pretty lonely existence. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know some people (especially miners) like that sort of thing. That doesn’t change the fact that this mine is both “lonely” and “remote” though. Getting to this mine requires a 4WD trip for many hours through the deserts of Nevada before one is compelled to stop at the base of the mountain where the mine is located. It then takes a couple of hours of scrambling straight up a mountain that is about as steep as is possible to climb without needing technical equipment. No trail at all, of course. You’ve just got to bushwhack your way up. We were probably the first people to see this abandoned mine in decades and the last one in that shaft before me may have been the miner himself.
Imagine the life he would have had up there… He may have had a mule to haul his supplies up the mountain, but given that this seemed like a real shoestring operation, that doesn’t seem entirely likely. Instead, I think the prospector probably hauled the essentials up on his back and used the rocks and wood at the top of the mountain to build his cabin and to provide the infrastructure for the mine. That windlass, for example, seemed like it was made on site. With only the wind for company, I can just see the old prospector leaning against the stone walls of the cabin after a hard day’s work and gazing out over the valley far below. Wondering if tomorrow he’d finally hit a vein that would make him rich and daydreaming about how he’d spend the money. Warm water from the canteen and maybe some beans and bread to eat… I have no idea where the miner got his water from. There isn’t water (that I know of) anywhere around there. We found some discarded bottles of booze near the cabin, which would have mixed things up a bit. Although small, I thought this was an interesting remnant of a long lost age in Nevada’s history.
The kicker is that this mine was discovered entirely by accident. We were on our way to another remote abandoned mine when I looked over and noticed this one. It is not even possible to see this mine on Google Earth and I could find no records at all on this mine. So, unfortunately, I cannot share its name or any history on the mine. It is my hope that the geologists in the audience can identify what was being mined here.
Oh, and, yeah, I know I used "miner" and "prospector" interchangeably in the above, but I think he was both.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference.
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD
You can click here for my full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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Gold mines in Goldfield, Nevada (SCARY DEEP) 20 mines found!!!

Filmed on 3-11-17. Sorry, but the first, and last part of the video got ruined. I dropped my camera, and broke it. Sean, and I take you through Goldfield mining district. This is just a fraction of the abandoned mines in Goldfield. Though some of the largest, and biggest producer's of gold in the world. We take right up close, and show you how close they are to each other. In 1906Goldfield, Nevada had a population of around 30,000 residents. It was the most populated city in Nevada at the time. They were going to move the capital of Nevada to Goldfield. As the gold dwindled away so did the thought of making Goldfield the capital. Please enjoy, and thanks for watching. Christian

Exploring The Many Adits Of Nevada's Sweetwater Rim Mine

We stumbled across this abandoned mine while looking for a camping spot, just as darkness was descending upon us (I shot the video the next morning). So, it was a most welcome discovery since it was an ideal location - level ground, out of the wind, a cleared area, good views, plenty of dry wood around for firewood… Abandoned mines often make for great campsites and this one was not an exception.
This name of this mine does not appear on any topographic maps that we have seen (if it is even marked at all) and it took some serious digging to even come up with a name. So, regrettably, I am unable to share any concrete information on its history. This area is heavy on lead and silver mines though and so, it stands to reason, they likely mined the same here as well.
It would seem that the area where we camped might possibly be the older workings at the mine given the absence of rail and the remains of that very old stone building in the wash (which is presumably where the early miner – or miners – lived). Perhaps the miner(s) followed the veins around the hill and started working that second section after coming to believe the first area we explored was played out. In support of this possibility is the fact that the second section had rail, more equipment, an ore chute, etc. Of course, another possibility is that the stone building was from the very early days of Nevada’s mining history and that some modest mining was done then, but that the majority of the mining work seen in the first and second sections dates to an effort during the 1930s or so. I mention this second possibility because the woodwork inside of both the first and second sections appears to be about the same age and it seems less likely that miners would be living in a primitive stone shelter by the 1930s.
That woodwork could also simply be a result of more recent claim owners (of which there is obviously at least one) going back and poking around in old workings.
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Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Exploring One Of The Biggest Abandoned Mines In Nevada: Part 1

Consistent with its status as one of the biggest abandoned mines in Nevada, it requires a hike of thousands of feet and a significant elevation decline just to get down to where the underground workings really begin at this massive mine… As can be seen near the start of this video, there are twin portals and passages running parallel down to the underground workings. Our guess was that this was because one passage was for traffic entering the mine and the other for traffic departing the mine. Deep underneath the mountain, the passages converge on a main hub from which drifts branch out in all directions. At the heart of this hub is a breakroom and a large workshop. A large drift takes off to the right from the workshop, while to the left a drift meanders away and another passage descends deeper into the bowels of the mountain. In this first video, we explore the hub of the mine as well as the workings taking off to the left from the hub. Following the descending passage, we were eventually blocked by flooding as the mine workings continue deep beneath the water level inside of the mine. One can only imagine how many miles of workings are under those dark waters. Fortunately, the other main drift taking off to the left was on a slight upward incline and so the water drained down and (mostly) out.
With the miles of underground workings at this abandoned mine stretching well into the double digits, one might expect there to be quite a lot of information available on this site. However, that is not the case. There is surprisingly little information to be found online and the various government agencies involved with this site have done a pretty thorough job of scrubbing references to it from their public databases.
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Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, guess what? We have fun doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a hundred years, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Exploring the Abandoned Whorehouse and Tunnels at the Wayward Wench Mine

Paul, Chuck, the new guy Brent, and I teamed-up to explore some abandoned mines and an abandoned whorehouse in Nevada. The Wayward Wench Mine had many tunnels of varying depths. We documented as many as we could. Afterward, we stopped off at an abandoned brothel that saw its last paying customer sometime in the early 1990s. Some of the beds and tacky decor were still in place such as velvet headboards and sparkling stucco. Real classy! Enjoy!

Nevada Mining (Part 3) - Modern Prospecting

Part 3 of 4. Mining has served as a leading STEM industry in Nevada for more than 150 years and continues to innovate innovate today.
Technology is improving not just the safety of modern mining, but the efficiency as well. From energy saving measures to life saving techniques, part 3 of the series explores the technology that makes today's mining possible.

The Nevada Searchlight Mine: Underground Exploration

We returned to the NevadaSearchlightMine in order to explore the underground workings. The previous visit was a surface exploration of the many structures at the mine. We accessed the Nevada Searchlight Mine by climbing down the ladders in the 900-foot deep vertical shaft. This let us access the 100-level and the 200-level. Many artifacts are still in the mine including a few functioning ore carts, a miners' telephone, control panels, old signage, old tools, miners' graffiti and artwork, tobacco tins, etc.. We saw it all, and it's included in the video. Video filmed in summer 2011.

The Horton Mine: Encountering a Ghost in a Haunted, Abandoned Mine (Summer 2013)

I had a startling encounter with the supernatural while exploring the abandoned HortonMine located near the massive Victorine Mine in Nevada. The Horton Mine dates back to the mid-1800s. I have been inside over a hundred abandoned mines, but this one was definitely the creepiest. As I ventured hesitantly down the tunnel, it felt more and more wrong. You'll see in the video the supernatural occurrence that caused me to ultimately turn around and head back out of the tunnel.

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belmont Mine, NV 2017

I visited this very interesting mine and mining camp on the fourth day of my 2017 trip. The BelmontMine is located high on a mountainside, in the HamiltonDistrict of central Nevada. Ore from the mine was transported via aerial cable tram to the mill, three miles away in the bottom of the canyon.
Go to this page on my website to see many more photos of Belmont Mine, NV:
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I've been photographically documenting ghost towns, mines, mining camps and other historic places since 1987.
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Secret Miner’s Cabin & Mines In The Sierra Nevada - Part 1

Probably less than a dozen people know about the historic miner’s cabin hidden away on this mining claim - and even fewer still know about the abundance of gold mines found here… It remains a secret because the people that do know where this is remain tight-lipped about it and this cabin and mines are located in an absolute black hole on topographic and other maps. There is simply nothing marked anywhere near here. With the contractors for the Forest Service, BLM, Abandoned MineLands (AML) programs, et al working overtime (with taxpayer money) to get all of these historic mines erased, it is very nice to be introduced to some gold mines that are not (currently) in danger of being permanently closed. It is a shame that we have to wallow in such secrecy simply to protect a historically significant site from the very entities that should be preserving it, but such is the upside down world we live in.
The two adits featured in this video appear to be quite old. I was able to find a couple of references to the mines consolidated on this claim in mining journals dating back to the turn of the last century and they were described as already having been worked for a while at that time. So, initial work here probably dates back to around the time of California’s “GoldRush” era.
The earliest gold miners in California were placer miners. However, when the easy pickings from the surface were worked out, they became lode miners and headed underground to start chasing the veins where the gold in the creeks originated from (some underground miners also chased the rich placer left behind by ancient river channels that were buried millions of years ago). The little hole by the creek under the huge boulder would have been referred to as a “coyote hole” by the miners of the time. These were in abundance along the creeks and rivers of California in the early days as the miners pursued gold flakes and nuggets back into the rocks and gravel lining the waterways. So, it seems likely that the small adit we visited first would have been the one developed initially and then the larger adit punching into the hard rock would have come along later.
In further support of the idea that these mines are older rather than newer is that, although it may possibly have been there at one point, there was no sign of rail at the mines we visited. The claim owner also stated that he has never seen any sign of rail here either.
It is not difficult to imagine a swarm of miners crawling all over these canyon walls like ants during the “Gold Rush” era, churning up the creeks and digging out coyote holes. This initial surge of miners, however, would have been followed by a more patient, more sophisticated group of miners that had an eye on heading underground. At the second adit shown in this video, for example, you could have had something like a father and son team or two brothers slowly working away at that lode mine for years, chasing those quartz veins and hauling load after load of ore and waste rock out in wheelbarrows.
I’m giving more of a general feel for the area with these videos rather than showing every single bit of mining history present as both sides of this canyon are covered in mines and the remains of mining equipment. We’ll see more of that in the next video.
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Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belleville Mine, NV 2018

The video features my visit to the BellevilleMine and Mill in Nevada.
This is the first in a series of videos from my 2018 trip, where I explored old mines, mining camps, ghost towns and other historic sites in Nevada and the Mojave desert. I'll soon be posting more videos from my trip.
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"Beauty In A Song" by Justin R. Busch
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The Horton Mine has been sealed.

I am very disappointed to say that the famous HortonMine has been fenced off. I didn't want to "click bait" the title, and say "I didn't expect this at the Horton Mine". It's a shame, and something I run into all the time. The BLM has these gates built, and there is no way of getting in. This was a very popular mine due to the rumor of the mine being very haunted. I'm sure you all have seen the video where the chains start moving on there own. The video is great, and kept the explorer from going any further in the mine. The Horton is a hard rock mine, and there is many in the area that are much larger, but not sealed off. I do not want anyone who has no mining experience to go into abandoned mines. I do have my opinion on these hard rock mines which are most common here in Nevada. After Ghost Adventures caught the flying brick at the Goldfield Hotel. There was a lot of strange people breaking in, and doing even stranger things once inside. I saw all of that first hand, and a lot of it creeped me out. I feel bad for the guy that did the first video on the Horton, and caught the chains moving on there own. It's still an interesting video showing the other workings around the Horton. In this video I climbed to the top of the Daniels Mine 3 times. I got to the mine, and noticed my sd card was about full. Then I got almost back to the mine again after getting a new sd card. Well something happened that we all do, and it hit me hard. I was almost running back to my truck, and barely made it. I'm just keeping it real you guys. The elevation, and the steep hike is a killer, but doing it 3 times in a matter of 2 hours. Well I was winded to say the least.
This video did have one good outcome because I started jogging again.
Thank you all for watching my videos, and for all the great comments. (I do read all of them). I have some thing's planned that you'll all enjoy. Sorry for going on, but as I expected it looks like the goverment is going to get this large land grab. There is 2 areas that I have to film before this happens, and I have to get the P900 or P1000. I know the perfect places to legally film these locations. I will only go to one of these locations with a friend or two. Due to what happened the last time I was there with a friend.
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The Loneliest Mine In Nevada?

I was going to call this video “The MostRemoteMine In Nevada?” at first because it really is the most remote mine in Nevada that we have come across or heard about. However, then I started thinking about the grizzled old prospector that located the vein that this mine followed and what his life up at the top of the mountain must have been like… It didn’t take long to realize that it would have been a pretty lonely existence. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know some people (especially miners) like that sort of thing. That doesn’t change the fact that this mine is both “lonely” and “remote” though. Getting to this mine requires a 4WD trip for many hours through the deserts of Nevada before one is compelled to stop at the base of the mountain where the mine is located. It then takes a couple of hours of scrambling straight up a mountain that is about as steep as is possible to climb without needing technical equipment. No trail at all, of course. You’ve just got to bushwhack your way up. We were probably the first people to see this abandoned mine in decades and the last one in that shaft before me may have been the miner himself.
Imagine the life he would have had up there… He may have had a mule to haul his supplies up the mountain, but given that this seemed like a real shoestring operation, that doesn’t seem entirely likely. Instead, I think the prospector probably hauled the essentials up on his back and used the rocks and wood at the top of the mountain to build his cabin and to provide the infrastructure for the mine. That windlass, for example, seemed like it was made on site. With only the wind for company, I can just see the old prospector leaning against the stone walls of the cabin after a hard day’s work and gazing out over the valley far below. Wondering if tomorrow he’d finally hit a vein that would make him rich and daydreaming about how he’d spend the money. Warm water from the canteen and maybe some beans and bread to eat… I have no idea where the miner got his water from. There isn’t water (that I know of) anywhere around there. We found some discarded bottles of booze near the cabin, which would have mixed things up a bit. Although small, I thought this was an interesting remnant of a long lost age in Nevada’s history.
The kicker is that this mine was discovered entirely by accident. We were on our way to another remote abandoned mine when I looked over and noticed this one. It is not even possible to see this mine on Google Earth and I could find no records at all on this mine. So, unfortunately, I cannot share its name or any history on the mine. It is my hope that the geologists in the audience can identify what was being mined here.
Oh, and, yeah, I know I used "miner" and "prospector" interchangeably in the above, but I think he was both.
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All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference.
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD
You can click here for my full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “GoldRushCountry” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring

Brown recently retired from his position as president of Barrick U.S.A., the American subsidiary of the world’s largest gold mining company ... He has also served on the board and executive committee of the NationalMiningAssociation and is a past chairman of the NevadaMining Association....

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belmont Mine, NV 2017...

Secret Miner’s Cabin & Mines In The Sierra Nevada ...

Ghost Towns & Mines: Belleville Mine, NV 2018...

The Horton Mine has been sealed....

The Loneliest Mine In Nevada?...

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Brown recently retired from his position as president of Barrick U.S.A., the American subsidiary of the world’s largest gold mining company ... He has also served on the board and executive committee of the NationalMiningAssociation and is a past chairman of the NevadaMining Association....

NewmontMining Corp, the world's No. 2 gold producer, is cutting 120 jobs at its Carlin mining operation in Nevada after deciding to reduce the life span of one mine and suspending part of another due to a wall slide, a spokesman said on Thursday. The Denver, Colorado-based company announced the cuts to its workforce and union on Jan ... ....

NewmontMining Corp, the world's No. 2 gold producer, is cutting 120 jobs at its Carlin mining operation in Nevada after deciding to reduce the life span of one mine and suspending part of another due to a wall slide, a spokesman said on Thursday ... ....

central bank will keep interest rates steady if the economy slows this year, while the Sino-U.S ... * U.S ... * NewmontMining Corp, the world's No. 2 gold producer, is cutting 120 jobs at its Carlin mining operation in Nevada after deciding to reduce the life span of one mine and suspending part of another due to a wall slide, a spokesman said on Thursday....

ELKO – Small MineDevelopmentLLC has resumed mining at Jerritt CanyonGold’s Lee Smith underground mine north of Elko after operations were halted following a fatality on Oct ... 3 to do rehabilitation bolting and shotcreting, and MSHA allowed mining and backfilling beginning Dec ... Holman’s death was one of two mining fatalities in Nevada in 2018....